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1. The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Culture
by Christopher Bigsby (Editor)
Essential reading for students and teachers of American studies around the world.
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3. Rousing the Nation
A reevaluation of American cultural politics in the 1930s This interdisciplinary study blends textual analysis with social history to chart the ... More
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4. Intellectual Vagabondage
by Floyd Dell, Douglas Clayton (Designer)
The widely debated challenge to modern literary and intellectual life by one of its most celebrated figures: How should the artist respond in times ... More
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5. Left Letters: The Culture Wars of Mike Gold and Joseph Freeman
by James D Bloom
The names of Mike Gold (1893-1967) and Joseph Freeman (1897-1965) predominate in cultural histories and literary annals of the 1920s and 1930s as ... More
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6. The Works of Alain Locke
by Alain LeRoy Locke, Charles Molesworth (Editor), Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr (Foreword by)
With the publication of The New Negro in 1925, Alain Locke introduced readers all over the U.S. to the vibrant world of African American thought. As ... More
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7. Gay voices of the Harlem Renaissance.
by A B Christa Schwarz
"Heretofore scholars have not been willing--perhaps, even been unable for many reasons both academic and personal--to identify much of the Harlem ... More
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8. Shakin' Up Race and Gender: Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano Narratives and Culture (1965-1995)
by Marta E Sanchez
The second phase of the civil rights movement (1965-1973) was a pivotal period in the development of ethnic groups in the United States. In the years ... More
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9. Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity
by Professor Jonathan Freedman
Klezmer is a continually evolving musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with ... More
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10. Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien
by Alex Vernon
As the world enters a new century, as it embarks on new wars and sees new developments in the waging of war, reconsiderations of the last century's ... More
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11. Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black and White
by Emily Bernard
A groundbreaking inquiry into the life of the audacious Carl Van Vechten, and his singular and singularly controversial contributions to the Harlem ... More
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12. Studies in the American Thought and Culture Series: Age of Contradiction: American Thought and Culture in the 1960s
by Howard Brick
Brick undertakes three tasks: to plot out the principal contradictions or polarities that structured debate and contention in American thought and ... More
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13. A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry
by Stephen Fredman (Editor)
This" Concise Companion "gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the ... More
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14. Reading Race in American Poetry
by Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Situated at the intersection of poetry, race, and politics, Reading Race in American Poetry addresses issues of historical as well as current ... More
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15. Dayneford's Library
"A fascinating and informative study. Gifford is remarkably well read. He has a grasp not only of canonical works, but also of the most esoteric ... More
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17. Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual
In this book, Ross Posnock shows that black writers, far from being recent arrivals, were arguably the first modern American intellectuals. W. E. B. ... More
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18. The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture
by David Bergman
The members of the literary circle known as the Violet Quill -- Christopher Cox, Robert Ferro, Michael Grumley, Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, ... More
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20. Rough Writing: Ethnic Authorship in Theodore Roosevelt's America
by Aviva F Taubenfeld
As the United States struggled to absorb a massive influx of ethnically diverse immigrants at the turn of the twentieth century, the question of who ... More
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23. America and the Young Intellectual
by Harold Stearns
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24. Thinking Across the American Grain: Ideology, Intellect, and the New Pragmatism
by Giles B Gunn
In "Thinking Across the American Grain" Giles Gunn makes a major contribution to the current revival of pragmatism in America by showing how it ... More
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